Motiba's Tatoo is the story of one family that came into being just that way. It is not just for the multi-cultural reader but should be read by everyone. This story provides insight as to why, today, we see all kinds of interesting names and faces in our great country and why we enjoy all kinds of foods, today readily available. It provides food for thought as to how the world is shrinking and why we should get to know and learn to understand each other.

Motiba's journey through life that took her from village India to the jet age, from her conservative Gujerati Jain roots to being the grandmother of "American" children and great grandmother of BLONDS is a story in itself.


Fiction And Nonfiction Readers Should Buy This Book   October 14, 2000
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This journey quite literally around the world is as much a love letter from the writer to her children as it is a telling of a universal story of family evolution.

What a treasure that Kamdar chose to trace her family's path as a way to explore the past century's economic, military and sociological history.

If you choose to read this as a scholarly writing, you will gain great insight from Kamdar's subject. If instead you choose to read it as an epic cross-cultural tale, you won't be disappointed.

Or you could buy it just for the recipies.